for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … – ambulances usually take patients to the closest (or affiliated) hospital. In this paper, we derive a theoretically appropriate ….S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …

population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower … spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however …

We use data from California to document and offer possible explanations for the sharp increase in hospital prices … the change in hospital market concentration. For example, the greatest price rises came from hospitals in monopoly and … hospital regulations, the seismic retrofit mandate and the mandatory nurse staffing ratio affected hospital costs. However, the …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

for surgical ones. We further use a 2008 policy where Medicare implemented financial penalties for certain hospital …

discharge have poorer outcomes, as well as higher downstream spending once conditioning on initial hospital spending …

changes in hospital costs. I exploit an exogenous 1988 policy change that generated large price changes for 43 percent of all …

billing data that do not reflect actual payments made. Although the responsiveness of prices to hospital performance depends … rankings, based on hospital excess-mortality and incorporate them into our price models. We are interested in the type … the widely-reported risk-adjustment methodology used in the federal Hospital Compare reporting system for ranking cardiac …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …